Monthly Archives: June 2017

4 Star
Death and Justice.
Writer/director Peter Berg (Hancock, Deepwater Horizon) brings us his third collaboration with Mark Wahlberg (Transformers: Age of Extinction, 2 Guns) and his on going love of historical events. He takes on the harrowing task of telling of the events on Patriots Day and around the aftermath of April 15, 2013 in Boston Massachusetts USA.
Police Sgt Tommy Saunders…more

4 Star
Corruption and Survival.
Eureka brings us #167 in their Masters of Cinema series with Luis Buñuel‘s (The Exterminating Angel) look at corruption and revolution. Set in South America in the mid 1950’s where the big man preys upon the small man. Great stuff.

A group of about two hundred men work the mountain river panning for the riches it carries, they…more

4 stars of gentle and inspiring rural drama.
Mai Mai Miracle was first released in 2009. It is based on Nobuko Takagi‘s novelisation of her auto biography, produced by studio Madhouse (A Letter To Momo, Wolf Children) and directed by Sunao Katabuchi (In This Corner of the World, Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail).
“Look, that’s my house over there. Doesn’t it look…more

4 Star
The Start of the End.
Director Seiji Kishi (Humanity Has Declined) brings us season 2 of his super-charged save the planet anime. With the continuing antics of Class E-3 as they try to assassinate their teacher Koro-Sensei before someone else claims the bounty before the deadline.

Class E-3 is all the misfits of Kunugigaoka Junior High School and they are separated…more

4 stars of colourful and fun adventure in Gotham City.
The LEGO Batman Movie is directed by Chris McKay, and produced by Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Roy Lee, who worked together on “The LEGO Movie.” The story by Seth Grahame-Smith is based on LEGO Construction Toys characters from DC and the screenplay is written by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris…more

4 stars of very explicit high school anime.
Prison School is based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto and adapted to anime by studio J.C. Staff (A Certain Magical Index).
“I’m going to talk to a girl!”
Hachimitsu Academy has a reputation for being one of the strictest girl’s schools in Tokyo. Now however, things are set…more

4 stars of investigations with “one hell of a butler”!
Black Butler: Book of Circus is season 3 of the enormously popular anime series based on the manga by Yana Toboso.
It is directed by Noriyuki Abe (Bleach) and brought to anime by A-1 Pictures (Your Lie in April, Sword Art Online).
“How many times must I tell you cooking requires fire, not firepower,…more